Hi,
It's good that I can talk about this here.

I was not in denial. I was totally aware that my speech and other parts of me were messed up. I had to convince myself to carry on in order to keep my job. Also to keep our jobs, Work Buddy and I spent a year dismantling a huge bureaucratic mess at our work place. (We nearly lost our jobs in the process.) We did succeed in 85% of our goal. Now we are working on other things that feel urgent but not job threatening.
It was hard to do that when I could barely read for the first 6 months.


I have dealt with four speech therapists. None of which was appropriate.
My internist will be willing to write a 'script for me.
We can hope that insurance will pay.
The co-pay will be at least 30 dollars a visit.

My internist is not sure that the big speech center in town will take me as a patient. She anticipates that I will need to push my case a little because I am high functioning (she says) for the general public but in a work place that requires high functioning. I have not been to see internist since last May. I want to renew Gabapentin 'script and get 'script for speech.

I told tdoc I did not have high expectations for finding a good therapist but was hopeful. She did not repeat the word "hopeful." She used the word "open" as in "I was open to getting a good therapist."

I need time in the summer to deal with phone calls, insurance, setting up testing, keeping appointments. This 2012 summer is the first time since the stroke in 2009 that I can do this.

I accidentally recorded myself recently on something --- maybe it was on the iPod. I can try to look for how to do it again.

Yes. Thanks. I thought of that. It could be taught a little like learning a foreign language is taught. . . .That's good . . . .although I stink at foreign language . . .esp pronunciation.

Mari